Ericpol Telecom

Consulting Services

Advisory services in optimization of telecommunications systems efficiency

Ericpol Telecom has long-standing experience and competence in delivering consulting services in the field of telecom systems. Our consulting services cover economic and technical analysis of customer hardware and software. Additionally, for each case study we assess the products available on the market in terms of the possibility of integrating them with the existing ICT infrastructure. All those processes are based on the use of standard economic tools which guarantee correct project management. Having such unique competences at our disposal, Ericpol Telecom can coordinate the entire implementation in an efficient and reliable manner.
  • Performance and functionality testing
  • Functional analysis and optimization of existing infrastructure and technologies
  • Performance monitoring and testing of telecom systems
  • Conducting technical and functional analysis of products delivered by various vendors
  • Evaluation and integration of multi- vendor systems
  • Telecom system implementation and integration with existing equipment

Project management

In view of the pace of economic growth, the effects of globalization and the ever-present pressure for lower costs, deadlines and quality, Project Management has an increasingly more important part to play. Ericpol constantly raises the bar on this area of its competence, determined to maximize the performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness of both internal projects and complex, consulting-based external projects.

Our team of experienced Project Managers is ready to proactively steer the development of each project and take you through all the phases of a project life-cycle with the use of internationally recognized methodologies for project management (PRINCE2, PMIBOK) and software development.

We provide our customers with overall project management and a single point of contact to work closely with them in order to coordinate the entire implementation, including:
  • Project Management in line with the project budget and schedule
  • Internal and external resource allocation
  • Assignment of tasks within the project team
  • Requirement Management
  • Risk Management
  • Change Management


Business areas

  • Business development support in BY, UA, MX, SE
  • ICT solutions businesss analysis support


Technology areas

  •  ICT solutions technical analysis support
  • Expert testing and troubleshooting support
  • Software development process optimization support
  • System migration support
  • Expert training support
  • Database tunning support (Oracle, MS SQL)
  • Software development quality support

Technologies

Programming languages
• Java (J2SE, J2ME), C++, C#, C, .NET, Perl, Python, Smile, proprietary: PLEX C, ASA

Telecom technologies:
• radio access and core networks being on the 3GPP evolutionary path towards LTE/SAE and EPS:
fixed PSTN networks, IMS, mobile: 2G, EDGE, 3G
• service layer: legacy CS IN, IMS, NGN (CS and PS convergence)
• programming models: JCA/JEE, SIP servlet, JAIN SLEE (RA and SBB), Web Services, Parlay/Parlay-X, proprietary: PLEX C, ASA, SIBs
• platform & middleware: HTTP AS, JEE/and SIP AS, JSLEE AS, proprietary: AXE, CPP, TSP, Blade
• interfaces and protocols: SS7, ISDN, TUP/DUP, CAMEL, ISUP, TCAP, MAP, INAP, CAP, BICC, SIGTRAN, SIP-T, TCP/IP, SIP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, vXML, CCXML

IT and web technologies
• JEE (EJB, JSF, JMS, JPA, JSP, Servlets), Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, XML, web 2.0 enriched: Ajax, RSS, openLDAP

Databases & Backend
LDAP, RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Oracle), X.25, Radius/Diameter, JDBC

Software Development Environment
• Eclipse, Netbeans, C++ Builder, JBuilder, Jdeveloper, Ant, Oracle Designer, Enterprise Architect/UML, proprietary SCE: SMAS, APSTools, AIDE, RoseRT
• software versioning and build: SVN, CVS, Maven, proprietary: ClearCase, IBM Rational
• ticket registering: Mantis, Bugzilla, proprietary MHWeb, SMS/Primus, ClearQuest
• Communication: Lotus Communication Suite, Skype, Google Talk

Software Test technologies:
DCT, TTCN, MGTS, TitanSIM, Lite, IGEN, Spectra, SIPp, SEA, TSS, 2Gsim/3Gsim

Methodologies

Own
EUP (own version of UP)
General
UP PROPS, MIND, PRINCE2, PMBOK, Agile: eXtreme programming, SCRUM.
We also use the customer’s versions of standard processes.

Profiles/People

Teams created of
  • Quality experts
  • Business consultants
  • Functional experts
  • System and solution architects
  • Managers